Door-jamb safe.



1 No. 741,868. v PATENTED 001113, 1903.

- W. R. PARK.

DOOR JAMB SAFE.

APPLIGATION FILED JULY 8, 1903,

.NO MODEL.

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PATENT *UFFICE.

DOOR-JAMB SAFE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 741,368, dated October 13, 1903.

Application filed July 8, 1903. Serial No. 164,649. (No modelf To a. whom it may concern.-

Be it known that 1, WILLIAM R. PARK, of Chicago, in the county of Cook and State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Door-J2 mb Safes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, and

to the letters of reference marked thereon,

which form a part of this specification.

This invention relates to improvements in door-jamb safes of that class adapted to be attached to the door-jamb for the reception of milk-bottles, groceries, and the like and so constructed to be held locked or closed when once closed so long as the door of the building is closed and to be accessible for opening'when the building-door is open.

The invention consists in the matters hereinafter set forth, and more particularly pointed out in the appended claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a door, showing my improved doorjamb safe applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a sectional view of thebuilding-door and side elevation of the box or safe, showing the door of the latter open. Fig. 3 is atransverse section taken on line 3 3 of Fig. 1, showing in dotted lines the building-door and the safedoor open.

As shown in the drawings, A designates one of the jambs of the door-frame and B the door of the building to which my improved safe is applied. Said safe, which is designated as a whole by the letter C, is made of cast or sheet metal, the latter being preferred on account of its lightness and economy in construction.

The safe C is constructed with three vertical wallsto wit, a back wall 0, a side wall 0, and a front wall 0 and'top and bottom walls 0 and 0 respectively. The front wall 0 of the safe is hinged to the side wall 0 to constitute a door which when open affords access to the interior of the safe. The side of the safe C adjacent to the building-door is omitted, and this side of the safe is closed by the building-door B when the latter is closed, and when the building-door is opened, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 3, access may be had to the safe through said omitted side to remove the article contained therein.

The door 0 of the safe is adapted to be closed by a spring latch a part of which is carried by the door of the safe and the complemental part of which is attached to the door 13 of the building. The latch herein shown consists of a horizontally-reciprocatory bolt or plunger D, which is seated and has endwise sliding movement in guides d d on the inner face of the door 0 and is normally projected outwardly by means of a spiral eX- pansively-acting spring cl,interposed between one of the lugs d and a pin or shoulder on the plunger. The bolt or plunger D is beveled on its outer end and is adapted to engage a suitably-shaped lug b on the building-door B.

In the use of the device it is designed that the householder shall leave the door of the safe open at night at the time the building door is closed, so that the article or commodity which the safe is designed to contain may be placed therein during the morning hours by the carrier or deliverer of such article or commodity. After the article has been placed inthe safe the door 0 thereof is swung closed and is automatically locked by the spring-latch described, the beveled end of the spri'ngractuated bolt permitting said bolt to pass the lug Z) on the building-door and to be seated behind said lug when the safe-door is closed. Said latch locks the door closed so long as the building-door is not open and, prevents unlawful or unwarranted abstraction of the article placed therein. When the building-door is opened, the door 0 of the safe is free to be swung open to permit the article to be removed or said article may be removed through the open side of the safe after the building-door is opened.

The features of construction whereby the safe-door may be allowed to remain open after the building-door is closed and to be thereafter closed and automatically locked and constructed to be opened upon the opening of the building-door is of considerable importance, as it renders the use of an unlocking-key unnecessary and facilitates the insertion of articles into and their removal from the safe.

The construction described affords a means by which articles or commodities may be safely left at the doors of houses or fiatbuildings without danger of being stolen or carried away by malicious or mischievous persons. So far as the essential feature of novelty of my improved safe is concerned the spring-pressed element of the latch may be located either on the door of the building or on the door of the safe; but the construction illustrated is preferred, as it'enables the part which is attached to the building-door to be Very simple in its construction and ready of application to the door.

I claim as my invention- 1. A door-jamb safe comprising a casing which is adapted to be attached to the doorjamb and provided with a hinged side or door, and a spring-latch forlocking the safedoor closed, embracing a part adapted to be attached to the building-door and a part on the safe-door.

2. A door-jamb safe comprising a casing which is adapted to be attached to ihe doorjamb and which is open at its side adjacent to the building-door, one side of said cas ng being hinged to swing toward and away from the safe, and a spring-latch embracing a part on the said swinging side of the casing anda part adapted to be attached to the buildingdoor.

A door-jamb safe comprising a casing which-is adapted to be attached to the doorjamb, one side of said casing being hinged to swing toward and away from the casing, a spring-pressed bolt on the inner face of said swinging side of the casing and a lug adapted to be attached to the building-door and adapted for locking engagement by said bolt.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I affiX my signature, in presence of two witnesses, this 2d day of July, A. D. 1903.

\VILLIAM R. PARK.

lVitnesses:

WILLIAM L. HALL, GERTRUDE BRYCE. 

